Three probable winners in Ross Town Council race

With the majority of votes counted Wednesday, three of five write-in candidates are clear leaders and probable winners in the voting for three seats on the Ross Town Council.

P. Beach Kuhl, 76, a lawyer serving on the Marin County Civil Grand Jury, was the top votegetter so far with 187; followed by Elizabeth Brekhus, a 42-year-old attorney and mother of three, with 181; and Kathleen "Katie" Hoertkorn, 61, a business consultant, with 131.

The results are from mail-in ballots that were sent in before Election Day, said Elaine Ginnold, Marin County registrar of voters. Some 200 ballots from voters at the Ross precinct are to be counted on Thursday, and another 30 or so provisional ballots are to be tallied on Friday.

This has been a historic election for Ross, the first time the Town Council race involved all write-in candidates.

Also on the Ross ballot was Measure C, a public safety tax that failed to get the two-thirds majority it needed for passage.